Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-10-19

He Thinks the Men Who Make Pol.
Profitable to Managers Ought to b
Well Paid.


Profitable to Managers ought to be
Well Paid.
Goldsmith, in the Hartford Times, has the
following to say on polo referees:
Before the polo season begins the managers
in the Connecticut division ought to vote a
salary of So game and expenses to the
referee. There are several things to be con-
sidered by managers of polo teams in
they desire to run profitable business the
coming winter.
In the first place they must provide such.
playing on the floor as will attract people-to
the games. And in connection with this
point it may be well to assure them that
rough playing will keep the people away
that is: the people whose patronage is sub
stantial and whose presence is necessary to
make the assemblsge respectable. When tho
crowds are devoid of this element of spects-
tors the police will have to be called on, with
ont doubt. 2ss~' ees i @4a's@
The next thing to be done is to select ref
erees who thoroughly know their business,
who have the rules intimately in mind, who
have sand enough to stand by their decisions
without losing their temper and above all
who possess a we'll balanced judgment in
critical points of game. On such men as
these the sport depends, and the people know
it already If the managers do not.
The price of such men is, and ought to be,
SIS a game and expenses.
It's money in the pocket of managers-in
the way of increased attendance-to get such
men on the floor and be sure of clean work
But the evident belief in the minds of the
managers at their recent meeting was that
the cities and not the men should do the
refareeing. Two referees from one city was
looked upon with disspproval. Herein the
managers were in error. IF four referees are
| needed, and that number of Meriden men
/ are experts and superior to others elsewhere,
those four Meriden men ought in all reason
| to be appointed. In the National base ball
league every one of the four umpires were
| eastern men and all except Daniels from
/ New York; 1t is said that polo is in its in
| fancy. Well, 1t always will be unless there
| is some growth toward maturity; and the
best move the managers can make is to get
the most expert men they can find to referee
the games at a good price, else before the
/ season is over they may be looking in vain
for referees whose services are sorsly needed
to replenish brokensdown treasures.
Another point; with two games night
| only two referees are needed. Instead of
having four or five referees and dividing up
| the games so that each gets. one or two games
/ q week, the managers should put two refer
ees in to do all the work there is to be done
| SO long as they can attend to it or are not
disabled. When they for any reason cannot
act, put in the substitutes: but first of all
give the preferences to the men who have the
| most experience, and, by making the service
| an object, get the best possible results
Polo has been getting SO rough and savage
4 in the last year or two that unless something
| is done to keep it within bounds the, sport is
| doomed. And yet clean game of polo is
| an interesting sport as any which has ever
/ found favor with American money.